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RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS:

Big majority of Americans support the natural right to keep and bear arms.

TAX AND SPEND:

Americans are renouncing their citizenship in record numbers to escape federal taxes.

"Last year, almost 1,800 people followed Superman's lead, renouncing their U.S. citizenship or handing in their Green Cards. That's a record number since the Internal Revenue Service began publishing a list of those who renounced in 1998. It's also almost eight times more than the number of citizens who renounced in 2008, and more than the total for 2007, 2008 and 2009 combined.

But not everyone's motivations are as lofty as Superman's. Many say they parted ways with America for tax reasons."

Taxes, actually the totality of the burden of government, are driving businesses and jobs overseas, and now they're driving citizens to leave the country too.

Space shuttle Discovery was nearly lost like several before it. I welcome the heroism that saved people's lives, but we all have to recognize that government kills.

"You see, we dodged a bullet in 2005. One we should have seen coming but didn’t."

Thankfully in this case some individuals overcame the deadly system.

HEALTH CARE:

Responding to President Obama's warning that the Supreme Court should uphold Obamacare, Ron Paul said students who learned Constitutional law under Obama should be given a refund. Sweet.

The Cincinnati-Dayton region will host a Medicare-Medicaid experiment.

"Modeled after private-sector approaches, it’s part of the federal health care overhaul and will transform how 75 of the region’s primary care practices are paid to care for patients. "

Maybe instead of having government model and corrupt a system based on the private sector, maybe we should just allow the private sector to deliver health care.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Even regime mouthpiece Reuters admits that Obama's green jobs boondoggle has been a bust.

The new $60 light bulb won a $10 million prize from government.

POLICE STATE:

Indianapolis police chief resigns after a blood sample from an officer involved in an accident gets corrupted twice. The criminals in uniform protect their own.

"In addition to the resignation of Ciesielski, who did not return a message left on his cellphone Tuesday, IMPD Deputy Chief of Professional Standards Valerie Cunningham was placed on paid suspension.

Lt. Paula Irwin, who was in charge of the property room, and Teresa Brockbrader, a civilian employee, also have been placed on paid administrative leave."

This looks like an extremely unusual case where politicians are holding police accountable. The mayor must have been afraid of losing his job over this.

"Ballard and Straub stopped short of saying the blood was intentionally tampered with, but its mishandling was met with disbelief by several observers, including Aaron Wells, whose 30-year-old son, Eric Wells, was killed in the crash."

Sure sounds intentional to me.

""We are currently working with an independent lab to clarify the implications of testing the blood from the second vial," Curry said."

This is a blatant admission that police labs can't be trusted. Defense attorneys in Indianapolis should be able to make hay with this for years to come.

Law enforcement versus peace-keepers and the power to decline services.

The US uses sexual humiliation as a means of control. Think TSA. Think prison strip searches for minor offenses. Think Abu Gharib.

WAR:

Now pictures of 82 Airborne personnel posing with corpses have emerged. We've seen so much of this stuff you have to believe it's commonplace. It's the norm. And it's sick. Our government's wars are seriously damaging the minds of good men and probably women. The big wigs want to pretend it's unusual so they can avoid culpability.

Following up: Who are We?
According to Secretary of Mass Murder, Leon Panetta, the elite 82nd Airborne folks who took pictures of themselves with desecrated corpses violated US values. What a lying sack of sadism. Apparently bombing women and children into early graves supports US values, but taking pictures with their blown up bodies violates those values. How is it the picture taking the problem but the killing is just fine? In what morality does this make sense? I'm disgusted with myself that I used to fall for this propaganda. It's makes me sick to my stomach. But I can now see through it to identify the creeps like Panetta, Obama, Bush, Petraeus, and whatever the name of that goon who worked for Bush and Obama as head of the Murder Department was.

Today, the Indian government tested a missile that could carry a nuclear weapon to Beijing. Did the US government and it's propagandists hyperventilate over it? No. Did they threaten India over it? No. Did they withdraw food trade over it? No. Do I sense a double-standard between India and North Korea? Does this double-standard encourage North Korea and Iran to develop nuclear weapons? Do I need to answer those questions?

FOREIGN POLICY:

It looks like all that war talk with Iran is cooling down and enabling negotiations because gas prices spiked, but the Israelis might muck them up.

POLITICS:

The scapegoating has begun in the Secret Service every agent screws hookers scandal. Three agents have been dismissed as if they did something out of the norm. For all the reading I've done by intelligent people exposing the tricks government uses to fool people into supporting it, I've yet to see analysis of this incredibly common scapegoating technique which they use so effectively to deflect blame for the inherently corrupt and corrupting nature of government.

MISC:

Pretty soon TV will not only brainwash children into being docile serfs and good consumers, but it will do the same to dogs.

I'm rarely impressed with the supposed weirdness of quantum particles; I learned to accept it three decades ago (or more). But I find this information about the electron impressively weird.

"Isolated electrons cannot be split into smaller components, earning them the designation of a fundamental particle. But in the 1980s, physicists predicted that electrons in a one-dimensional chain of atoms could be split into three quasiparticles: a 'holon' carrying the electron's charge, a 'spinon' carrying its spin and an 'orbiton' carrying its orbital location. In 1996, physicists split an electron into a holon and spinon. Now, van den Brink and his colleagues have broken an electron into an orbiton and a spinon (abstract)."

How can electrons in one context be elemental but in another context be divisible? That answer is obvious, but it's fascinating that scientists haven't discovered it yet.